Pāli Lessons

Pāli Readings on Zoom

Meetings on every Wednesday 13:00 (Europe/Lisbon time), except when it falls on uposatha days; in those cases the meeting is shifted to Thursday. The meetings are about 1.5hr.

Zoom Meeting: Invite Link, Meeting ID: 871 8546 9048, Passcode: suttanta

Whiteboard: Pāli Readings (tldraw.com)

Print the pali-readings-next.pdf, the PDF is updated the day before the meeting.

The pali-cheatsheet.pdf may also be useful.

Bring colour pens for marking the cases, at least red, green and blue. A 12-shade colour-pencil pack has all the necessary shades: nom, acc, inst, dat, abl, gen, loc, voc and pencil gray for verb.

Lesson Materials

These lessons can be included during a Vinaya study period. The material focuses on the language forms used in the Pāṭimokkha, and introduces Pāli readings from the rules and examples from the daily chants which bhikkhus have already memorized.

One lesson may take more than one session to study with a group. We found that the material in one lesson can be covered in 3 or 4 sessions, each 1 hour long.

Someone familiar with the language may explain the grammar points, while the others may take turns in solving the exercises.

pali-lessons.pdf

pali-lessons-answerkey.pdf

pali-cheatsheet.pdf

Pali Lessons

A memory card deck for the Anki application is included below to help memorizing the vocabulary and sentences using the Spaced Repetition method.

pali-lessons.apkg

When you import it into Anki for the first time, it will create the relevant card decks.

The above file gets updated as the lesson content develops. When you import it again, Anki creates duplicate cards, which can be removed with these steps:

  1. After importing, select Browse > Find Duplicates > 'Front' field can tag the duplicates.
  2. Search for: tag:duplicate added:1 (tagged with 'duplicate' and added today)
  3. Which can be all deleted.
  4. Select the tag 'duplicate' from the sidebar and delete the tag itself, which will remove it from the existing notes.

Readings Archive

pali-readings-2023.pdf

pali-readings-2023-answerkey.pdf

pali-readings-2023.apkg

pali-readings-weavers-daughter-dhp174.pdf

pali-readings-weavers-daughter-dhp174-answerkey.pdf

pali-readings-weavers-daughter-dhp174.apkg

Additional Resources